How should data and selection be handled with QListView?

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QM • Qt Forum member • September 11, 2026 • 1 answers

A developer new to Qt wanted to add items to QListView and later retrieve the selected index.

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Dheerendra V Purohit

September 11, 2026 • Independent answer

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Dheerendra pointed the user toward Qt's model/view approach: populate a model and assign it to the view. For selection, view signals such as clicked or activated provide a QModelIndex.

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connect(view, &QListView::clicked, this, [](const QModelIndex &index) { /* use index */ });

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